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Mendes and his band quickly jumped from the clubs of Rio to New York, where Mendes played the first bossa nova festival at Carnegie Hall, followed by a pop-in at the iconic Birdland jazz club in 1962.

Luciana Souza's new album features pop standards set to a Brazilian bossa nova beat. The Brazilian-born singer has an intimate familiarity with bossa nova. But since her last album — in 2005 ...

Milton Banana (1935-1999), one of the best Brazilian drummers ever, took part in Joao Gilberto's debut album, backed the singer in the famous 1962 " Bossa Nova At Carnegie Hall concert," and recorded ...

Buddy Deppenschmidt, a jazz drummer who learned the rhythms of Brazilian music on a State Department tour, then appeared on a best-selling 1962 album, “Jazz Samba,” which helped launch a ...